Chapter 497

An unprecedented "battle" was over, the civilians broke through the defenses of the cathedral, the high priests were dragged out of the church to bear the anger of the people, the anger accumulated by the civilians was vented, and justice seemed to be served, Everything seems to have settled down.

But for the leaders and makers of it all, there's a lot more to come.

After the battle in Luan Cathedral, the white knights took action immediately. They first assembled various teams of volunteer mercenaries and adventurers to ensure the order of all armed teams, and then began to organize people to store them in various warehouses in the church area. The food was transported to the square for on-site distribution. After the people received the food and their hearts were initially settled, a group of Luan citizens, representatives of mercenaries, and representatives of businessmen went to the outer city to greet the people who were already waiting outside the city. Cecil Combat Corps.

After the Cecil Combat Corps entered the city, the situation could be said to have initially stabilized.

Amber and Wright left the underground of the cathedral, and they showed the remaining fragments of the robe of Fran Berand to the people, telling the people that the sinful bishop had been completely annihilated by the Holy Light of the White Knight - although many people regretted that they did not see it in person. Seeing the death of Fran Berenger, but such a result is enough to make the people cheer, after all... Considering the actual situation of the extraordinary power in this world, it is expected that Fran Berand will die under the stones and sticks of the people It is very unrealistic. From the perspective of safety and security, the surprise assassination of Bishop Luan by an elite team of white knights is itself a part of the plan.

After doing this, Amber and Wright did not stop at the square, but soon came to an unremarkable house on the edge of the church district.

This is an ordinary house that looks ordinary from the outside, but the soldiers and two white knights guarding the door are enough to explain its speciality. Amber pushed the door in, and sure enough, he saw the tall and familiar back in the main room.

"You really sneaked in," the half-elf lady walked over carelessly, patting Gawain's arm, "I'll just say, you definitely don't want to hide behind something so important... …”

Gao Wen, who was dressed in military uniform, sensed the other party's breath long before Amber entered the room. He turned around and looked at Amber with a bit of tears and laughter: "What is sneaking in... Don't use your professional terms when describing me? Is it?"

Amber folded his arms in a pious voice: "The city that I entered with the team, but I haven't shown up until now. It's not stealing."

The corner of Gawain's mouth trembled, and he looked helplessly at the head of the Military Intelligence Agency who had just made a great contribution - obviously based on the previous mission report and the actual situation in Lu'an City, this half-elf has been working conscientiously for so many days in the past. He thought that he would be able to see a mature and reliable Amber, but he didn't expect this guy to be the same after meeting...

how to say,

I feel like she was a ruthless and cunning head of secret agents when she walked outside half a minute ago, and then she suddenly turned into a goose as soon as she walked in the door, and staggered to her side, sticking her head out. , began to keep bb...

Annoying, ineligible, and self-conscious.

"Hey, why didn't you speak?" Amber saw that Gawain didn't say a word for a while, but he started to babble again, "No way, maybe you really take it to your heart... Don't you mean you sneaked into the city... …”

Gawain quickly shook his head, and threw out the image full of "a goose bbing in front of him", he glanced at Amber: "This is a very dangerous action, and it is easy to cause variables— -Civilians go to attack the cathedral of the extraordinary, even if there are white knights and a large number of volunteer mercenaries as the vanguard, it is too easy to get out of control, especially the suspicious thing you mentioned about Fran Berand... I have to personally Come to the formation to prevent accidents."

Hearing Gawain's words, Amber was a little stunned, her pointed ears shook slightly, and a strange smile appeared on her face: "Really..."

"Really what?"

"It's nothing," Amber shook his head, "That Fran Berand had a strange situation. Frankly speaking, it was still a little dangerous at the time, but fortunately it was just a false alarm - big man, what about that crystal?"

Wright has been standing quietly beside him since just now without saying a word. He heard Amber calling him now. He didn't care about the nickname the other party gave him. The radiant, light-gold crystal like light casting: "Lord, this is it."

Gawain took the crystal in surprise: "This is... what is it?"

Amber spread out his hands: "Whether you believe it or not, this is the remains of Fran Berand... The rest of his body was burned by the Holy Light, and this is the only thing left."

Gawain was taken aback—how did the bishop of Holy Light in this other world burn the relics? Could it be Fran? Berenger is still a monk...

But he didn't say what he was thinking, but looked at Amber with a strange expression: "What happened?"

Amber cleared her throat and began to describe her and Wright's experience vividly: "That's what happened, we found it underground..."

Gawain frowned slightly and listened carefully to every detail Amber described. After removing the shameful bragging part of this shameful elf, he slowly restored the idea of ​​killing Fran Bei in his mind. Lang's entire operation goes by.

Then he couldn't help feeling a little emotional about the death of the temporary Bishop Luan.

It seems that Fran Berenger is indeed ready to ambush in the prayer room. He got weird power out of nowhere, and arranged a killer move in the room, but he obviously didn't guess the White Knight's Action flow - The white knights skipped the link of "step into the secret room to disarm the organ and encounter the enemy", and chose to blow up the entire secret room and then go in again, so the ambushed Fran Berenger was bombed before he acted half dead...

Then this half-dead guy pretended to be trying to resurrect again and wanted to ambush again, but the result was wrong again - Amber's faith is exquisite, Wright can break the mental seal by himself, and the other white knights have also accepted Protestant teachings, The frightening macho man with high resistance to the God of Light, Fran Berand's last ripple changed to loneliness, and then he was completely beaten to death.

To be honest, it is quite a shame to die. It is better to be stoned to death by ordinary people in the cathedral. At least you can get a newspaper, and you may even be able to teach textbooks...

Thinking about it this way feels even more suffocating.

After Amber finished speaking, and Wright added some details next to him, Gawain looked at the crystal in his hand and fell into thought.

This crystal is indeed "dead", but it still exudes a slight heat and light, and in the faint light, you can vaguely see countless changing phantoms, as if the empty soul of Fran Berenger is still there There was an echo in the crystal, vainly refusing to admit his own death, and when Gawain pointed this translucent crystal to the sun, he could see through the crystal that the surface of the giant sun was covered with a layer of faint ripples. ——

This phenomenon that the sun wheel shows ripples through the crystal proves that this crystal has a strong coherence of magic power. It is a crystallization born in a strong magic environment, and it also contains stable magic power.

Can human flesh and blood really produce such crystals?

Or is it... Fran Berenger is trying to use a certain crystal state of the holy artifact to enhance his power, and as a result of the failure of the ritual, the backlash caused him to turn into a monster mixed with flesh and crystal?

Or... Actually, at that time, Fran Berand was just standing behind the gate holding a magic weapon made of crystal, ready to make a surprise attack when the intruder pushed the door in, but the white knight didn't make sense when the gate opened. He threw a lot of explosives in it, and blew him and the crystal evenly...

Gawain couldn't help shivering. He felt that his third hypothesis was too demonic and ghostly. Although it seemed very emotional to scatter thoughts in this direction, in such a world of swords and magic, it is best to follow the local It is better to think about the style of painting.

Seeing the changing expressions on Gawain's face, Wright couldn't help but ask, "Do you have any ideas?"

"I couldn't think of it for a while..." Gawain said, but just halfway through, a flash of light suddenly flashed in his mind, as if he had caught a clue that he almost ignored, "Wait... I seem to remember..."

Amber and Wright immediately became quiet, and after thinking for a moment, Gawain finally succeeded in grasping the flashing message: "Do you remember, both Carmel and Nicholas Egg described the early days of the Gondor Empire's manufacturing" God's Sin' - The original 'God's Sin' failed product has a characteristic, that is, crystals grow out of human flesh and blood..."

"God's evil?" Amber's eyes widened, "You mean... Fran Berand tried to transform himself into a god's evil?"

Gawain thought carefully: "Not necessarily... I suspect this is just a by-product of some kind of failed attempt. According to the information provided by Carmel, all the descendants of Gondor humans actually have the genetic factor of God's evil, in other words , as long as the external stimuli are suitable, maybe every human being can become 'God's evil'... It's just that the evil technology of the Gondor Empire finally succeeded, they stabilized and harmless this genetic factor, and made it safe It has been implanted into the human body, so for thousands of years, there has never been a runaway phenomenon among ordinary people, but who can guarantee that it will never mutate?"

Amber and Wright both looked thoughtful, while Gawain sighed softly: "Unfortunately... there are no clues left, I am afraid we will never know what happened to Fran? Braun... one is not a good one. How can a priest of the rank suddenly gain such power?"

There was a trace of apology on Wright's face: "Lord, our actions were too reckless..."

"No, there is no problem with your actions, that is indeed the best plan, the destruction of clues is unavoidable, after all, it is a battlefield," Gawain waved his hand, "and it is just my conjecture to say that Fran? Fortunately, you found this crystal, I can take it back and let Kamal identify it, maybe I can find some clues."

After putting this matter aside for a while, Gawain exhaled. He looked at Amber and Wright in front of him with a smile on his face.

"All in all, everything went well, you guys did a great job."

Wright immediately straightened his body and said solemnly, "The Holy Light guides me."

Amber waved his hand: "This matter is not over yet, and there may be chaos in Lu'an City in the future. There are those rookies who are busy."

Gawain nodded lightly, knowing that everything was exactly as Amber said—the incident in Luan City may have come to an end, but the follow-up pacification and reconstruction work has only just begun.

The angry people used a storm-like action to destroy the oppression of the priest group. However, without timely and effective follow-up guidance and order building, this action could easily turn into uncontrolled atrocities and long-term unrest. Now, thanks to the efforts of the White Knights, Cecil soldiers and civil representatives, the first phase of order and stabilization work has been carried out smoothly. This action did not turn into an out-of-control atrocity on the spot, but will the city fall into long-term turmoil after that? It depends on the work of the officers of the Military Intelligence Agency and the propaganda department.

It is necessary to rebuild the main urban functions of Luan City in the shortest possible time, establish a new governance team that can be recognized by the locals, and integrate the city into the Cecil system as soon as possible. Publicize the matter to the whole country, try our best to discover the positive influence of this action, and be alert to the destruction and counterattack of the old church diehards...

Lots of work to do, but luckily the hardest part has been overcome.